New Releases - 6/30/17

Beach House – B-sides And Rarities CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)B-sides And Rarities contains every song Beach House – aka Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand – has made that does not exist on one of their albums. The band explains: “When we announced that we were releasing a B-sides and rarities album, someone on Twitter asked, ‘B-sides record? Why would Beach House put out a B-sides record? Their A-sides are like B-sides.’ This random person has a point. Our goal has never been to make music that is explicitly commercial. Over the years, as we have worked on our six LPs, it wasn’t the ‘best’ or most catchy songs that made the records, just the ones that fit together to make a cohesive work. Accordingly, our B-sides are not songs that we didn’t like as much, just ones that didn’t have a place on the records we were making.”

Carcass – Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious [Reissue/1991] LP (Earache)Liverpool's legendary death metal pioneers Carcass are often credited with shaping the entire death metal genre pushing boundaries with their shocking imagery whilst evolving and innovating with each new album. Necroticism - Descanting The Insalubrious is Carcass' classic third slab and first featuring guitarist Michael Amott.

Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness [2005] 2xLP+MP3 (Columbia)First-time vinyl edition. Originally released in 2005, the breakthrough third studio album by progressive rockers Coheed And Cambria continued the band's ambitious four-album "Armory Wars" sci-fi storyline and featured the mainstream rock hit "Welcome Home."

The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? [Reissue/1993] LP (Analog Sparks)Limited 180gm vinyl pressing in a Stoughton old style tip on jacket. First widely available pressing after being out of print on vinyl for over 24 years.

Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires – Youth Detention CD/LP (Don Giovanni) Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Battletapes with engineer Jeremy Ferguson and producer Tim Kerr, Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires' Youth Detention captures the band in raw form. Each song was cut live to tape, with the four performing in the same room without headphones or baffling. The result is thoroughly human, Lynn Bridges' mix retaining the band's live energy and looseness at the expense of a few out of tune strings. The Glory Fires music draws deeply from punk, but also soul, power pop, country, and gospel. [Limited edition color vinyl pressing also available.]

of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? [Reissue/2009] LP+MP3 (Polyvinyl)Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? is of Montreal's landmark 2007 album. The album defined of Montreal's career and continues to be hailed as a classic. Pitchfork called the album "Ceaselessly fascinating and inexhaustibly replayable," honoring it with "Best New Music" and placing it in the Top 5 albums of 2007. It went on to become Polyvinyl's all-time best selling album to date. For the 10-year anniversary of the release, Polyvinyl is proud to be issuing this updated vinyl version.

Ryan Adams – Prisoner: End Of The World Edition 12x7” (Blue Note)12 7” records — one for each of the 12 songs on Prisoner — pressed in different color vinyl and accompanied by unique artwork. In addition to the album’s original material, there are 17 previously unreleased B-sides included. Also included are action figures in the shape of Adams and his bandmates, arcade games, cats and tigers, and even a miniature stage setup complete with working lights and sounds.

Shakey Graves And The Horse He Rode In On - Nobody's Fool & The Donor Blues EP 2x12”+MP3 (Dualtone)A double EP of B-sides and rarities from the Austin artist. 180gm clear vinyl pressing. Alejandro Rose-Garcia is professionally known as Shakey Graves. NPR Music named him one of 10 artists music fans “should’ve known in 2012,” describing him as “astonishing…unclassifiably original. And frighteningly good.” Paste included him in a “Best of What’s Next” feature, praising his “gnarly composite of blues and folk,” while The New York Times observed that Shakey Graves “makes the one-man band approach look effortless.”

Vic Chesnutt – Silver Lake [Reissue/2003] 2xLP+MP3 (New West)At the time Silver Lake was recorded, you could count on two things with Vic Chesnutt: he would approach any topic, from the delicate to the mundane and he would take an unexpected angle. With an incisive eye and razor wit, he would always cut straight to the heart of the matter.